Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 90
Thereupon the white hart entered the water, and Richard, commending himself to the protection of God, did the same, and swam safely to the other side.
Who acts: white hart · What happens: enter, commend, do, swim, protect · To what, where: water, stream, same, other side, God
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white hart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hart | det |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hart | amod |
| 4 | hart | hart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Richard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Richard | cc |
| 10 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 commending | punct |
| 12 | commending | commend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 entered | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 commending | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 protection | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 protection | det |
| 16 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commending | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 God | case |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 protection | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 same | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 did | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swam | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 swam | cc |
| 25 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | conj |
| 26 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 25 swam | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 side | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 side | amod |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swam | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the white hart | the water | Richard obl; thereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination | |||
| 2 | commend | gerund | the white hart not said here | stream | to the protection of God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | the white hart not said here | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | swim | past | the white hart not said here | the other side | safely property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination | |||
| 5 | protect | God | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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